Between the hardback covers of Black History in Its Own Words, celebrated comics creator Ron Wimberly has selected and illustrated 39 quotes "ranging from the casual to the profound, from luminaries past and present." The comics portraits assembled here range in style from Pop Art to European portraiture to manga and, of course, straight up comic book, the mode of representation in each case chosen to effectively represent the speaker and match up with the quote. Part of the fun of this collection is seeing who Wimberly chose to represent, which quote he picked and how he went about it representing it, so we're not going to spoil things by giving it all away here, but will suffice it to say that the range – from Sojourner Truth to Ice-Cube – is wide, and includes plenty of surprises, and will demonstrate to just about every reader that there's still plenty to learn about black history.